The King is Dead Archives - Suzannah Lipscomb

Henry VIII’s Will – Podcast with Dan Jones

February 4, 2016July 20, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

The wonderful medieval historian, Dan Jones, here interviews me about my new book The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII for BBC History Magazine's podcast. It has been lovingly excised to remove most of our ribbing of each other, but a stray comment or two have made it…

The King is Dead: The last will and testament of Henry VIII

January 16, 2016July 20, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Published by Head of Zeus, November 2015. Henry VIII's last will and testament, drawn up a month before his death, is one of the most intriguing and contested documents in British history. Given special legal and constitutional significance by the 1536 and 1544 Acts of Succession which allowed Henry VIII…